Noble Planetarium - About

THE NOBLE PLANETARIUM: A GIANT LEAP INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

The 80-seat Noble Planetarium brings the first Zeiss-manufactured hybrid planetarium system – an immersive all-dome video combined with a fiber optic dual-hemisphere star projector to see more than 7,000 stars – to the Southwest United States. The planetarium also features an exhibit area that provides large screens with views of the Sun, as well as downlinks offering the latest information from the Hubble Telescope.

The Noble Planetarium is a giant leap into the 21st century, incorporating the very latest cutting-edge technology in the planetarium field. The planetarium shares space with the Cattle Raisers Museum and alternate astronomy programs with the Cattle Raisers’ introductory presentation, “Thundering Herd.”

Zeiss SKYMASTER ZKP-4 star projector which projects thousands more stars more clearly than ever before.Two (2) star balls that cover the entire sky – both the northern and southern hemispheres.Sciss UniVeiw flies Planetarium visitors to the edge of the universe and back. This live-action software allows real-time visits to any location in the known universe.

890-square foot, pre-show area features:

an official Sputnik satellite;

a replica of NASA’s original Manned Maneuvering Unit, which allowed astronauts the ability to fly without a tether to the Space Shuttle;

one (1) large plasma screen with ViewSpace, real-time information from the Hubble Space Telescope and other up-to-the-minute space news;